Student assistant with interest in development issues

The Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) at the Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen is looking for one hourly paid student assistant (max 10 hours/week) with an interest in development issues starting 1 June 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

About us
The student assistant will be employed in the Global Development section. The section engages in inter-disciplinary research on economic, political, environmental, and institutional dynamics in low-income and Arctic countries. Research areas include issues of livelihoods, small-scale industry, trade, and labour; of climate change mitigation and adaptation; of forest and natural resource management; of resource conflicts and land grabbing; and of governance, state formation, and corruption. The section constitutes 10 permanent staff, 5-6 post docs/assistant professors and 8-10 PhD students and engages in inter-disciplinary research on economic, political, environmental, and institutional dynamics in developing and post-colonial societies.

Job description
The hourly paid student assistant will, with supervision from experienced researchers undertake the following tasks:

• Registration, digitization, and filing of research
• Simple handling of data
• Smaller writing assignments
• Help with photo-copying and other practical tasks
• Practical help with seminars and other events

Qualifications
Applicants should preferably by studying within the fields of geography, forestry, development studies, economics, biology or related with good results and good English skills. Some experience with quantitative and qualitative analysis would be beneficial.

Terms of employment
At the time of employment you are an active student enrolled at an institution of higher education.

The employment is made in accordance with the Collective Agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Organisations of Public Employees – governmental institutions (the OAO-S collective agreement) and under the Professional Agreement for clerical employees, laboratory technicians and it officers in the state.

Application Procedure
If you find the job interesting, please send an electronic application with attachment via Jobportalen (click on the link "Apply Now" at the bottom of the post) no later than 9 April 2025, 23:59 GMT +2.

Interviews are expected to be held in April.

Please include

• Cover Letter
• CV
• Diploma and transcripts of records (BSc and MSc)
• List of publications (if any)
• 1-3 names of references

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Further questions
For specific information about the positions, please contact Professor Carsten Smith-Hall, [email protected].

Read more about the Department of Food and Resource Economics at www.ifro.ku.dk, and the Faculty of Science at www.science.ku.dk.